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Are they any good?

TIA

Cath

wrote:

> Are they any good?
>

Jetstart works well within the confines of what it is. You have always
on internet and the phone line isn't tied up. The advertised 128Kb/s is
available, latency is a bit higher than I'm happy with and you can't
have a static IP address. Compared to a cheapie dial up account it
seems expensive unless you also treat it as providing the equivalent of
a 2nd phone line. It did me well for a couple of years until I moved to
a faster ADSL offering - Jetstart is *not* broadband but it beats the
hell out of a dial up connection.


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EMB
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:50:57 -0500,
wrote:

>Are they any good?
>
>TIA
>
>Cath

It hasn't been called "Jetstart" for ages and who are "they"?

EMB wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> Are they any good?
>>
>
> Jetstart works well within the confines of what it is. You have always
> on internet and the phone line isn't tied up. The advertised 128Kb/s is
> available, latency is a bit higher than I'm happy with and you can't
> have a static IP address. Compared to a cheapie dial up account it
> seems expensive unless you also treat it as providing the equivalent of
> a 2nd phone line. It did me well for a couple of years until I moved to
> a faster ADSL offering - Jetstart is *not* broadband but it beats the
> hell out of a dial up connection.
>
>

.... and most of JetStream is also not broadband. There is no 512k option,
only non-broadband 256k and fullspeed.

And for some reason known only to Telecom if you go for the higher
speed then you cannot use it as much! What Telecom (and their ilk)
are essentially say is that if you want to have true broadband
then you are going to have to modify your web surfing habits and not
surf as much. Who is going to do that? No wonder the uptake is low!

It is a bit like buying a faster car only to find that the fuel tank
is 1/10th the size of your old car's.

Harry wrote:
> ... and most of JetStream is also not broadband. There is no 512k option,
> only non-broadband 256k and fullspeed.

Have you had a look at the "remote office" products?
512kb,1mb,2mb are available.
with or without caps.

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:02:26 +1200, Dogg <>
wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:50:57 -0500,
>wrote:
>
>>Are they any good?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Cath
>
>It hasn't been called "Jetstart" for ages and who are "they"?

Ummmm, I have an email here which in the header states Jetstart

Cath

Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Harry wrote:
>> ... and most of JetStream is also not broadband. There is no 512k option,
>> only non-broadband 256k and fullspeed.
>
> Have you had a look at the "remote office" products?
> 512kb,1mb,2mb are available.
> with or without caps.

Are they the business plans?
Not the 10GB at $888 plan?!

The whole point is, why aren't such plans available
for residential users? Or is Telecom in the business
of price gouging?

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:50:57 -0500,
wrote:

>Are they any good?

By the way you have phrased this it looks like you are referring to a
company called Jetstart?

Jetstart was the original name for Telecom's residential 128kbit
Jetstream ADSL service. They later renamed it to "Jetstream Starter",
then bought out so many other products starting with Jetstream such as
"Jetstream Home" and "Jetstream Full Speed" so that no average-joe
knows what the hell they've got till they get a $5,000 bill and told
they've chosen the wrong plan.



They should have just kept the Jetstart name.


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Kristofer Clayton (KJClayton)
Gisborne, New Zealand

In article <>,
"Kristofer Clayton" <> wrote:

> Jetstart was the original name for Telecom's residential 128kbit
> Jetstream ADSL service. They later renamed it to "Jetstream Starter",
> then bought out so many other products starting with Jetstream such as
> "Jetstream Home" and "Jetstream Full Speed" so that no average-joe
> knows what the hell they've got till they get a $5,000 bill and told
> they've chosen the wrong plan.
>
>
>
> They should have just kept the Jetstart name.

Everyone but XTRA *did*.

XTRA are only one of the many companies you can buy JetStart from -- and
quite possibly the worst.

-- Bruce

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:20:15 +1200, Bruce Hoult <>
wrote:

>> Jetstart was the original name for Telecom's residential 128kbit
>> Jetstream ADSL service. They later renamed it to "Jetstream Starter",
>> then bought out so many other products starting with Jetstream such as
>> "Jetstream Home" and "Jetstream Full Speed" so that no average-joe
>> knows what the hell they've got till they get a $5,000 bill and told
>> they've chosen the wrong plan.

>Everyone but XTRA *did*.
>
>XTRA are only one of the many companies you can buy JetStart from -- and
>quite possibly the worst.

I must agree there. I'm with ihug myself - who called theirs Jet2000
(as per the e-mail I got 11-Sept-2002) - and is now "Jetstream
Starter". Even at time of inception it was twice the megabyte limit of
xtra's offering.

Problem is it's crappy old xtra with the in-your-face advertising of
the service.. ol' Meet George Jetstream on TV showing what broadband
can do, shame he didn't mention that the price to stream videos at any
decent rate will want you to re-mortgage your house.


--
Kristofer Clayton (KJClayton)
Gisborne, New Zealand